Nicholas Winterton

Nicholas Winterton (31 March 1938-) was the Conservative Party MP for Macclesfield from 1 October 1971 to 12 April 2010, succeeding Arthur Vere Harvey and preceding David Rutley. He was the husband of fellow Conservative MP Ann Winterton.

Biography
Nicholas Winterton was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England in 1938, and he served in the British Army in West Germany from 1957 to 1959. He served as a sales and general manager of a construction machinery company from 1960 to 1971, when he was elected to Parliament as the Conservative Party MP for Macclesfield; his wife Ann Winterton served alongside him. He opposed British membership in the European Union, and he was later accused of misusing expenses and of slapping Labour MP Natascha Engel's butt.